Q&A: Should I learn to play the violin or guitar?
Question by Kristy L: Should I learn to play the violin or guitar? For a school I am applying to you have to play an insturment. I narrowed my choic...
Question by Kristy L: Should I learn to play the violin or guitar?
For a school I am applying to you have to play an insturment. I narrowed my choices down to guitar and violin. I want to play guiar cuz u can play all different kinds of music on it, but I want to play Violin since it looks so much more different and not your everyday insturment (a lot of ppl play guitar.)
What do you think?
Best answer:
Answer by lexo80
Interesting choice.
You can play all kinds of music on violin too – traditional, jazz, rock, avant-garde stuff, classical etc. But it’s much harder than guitar. Guitar is easier, and is THE universal instrument in that it’s found in every culture and every kind of music. I play guitar and a bit of violin and although I prefer guitar I advise you to play violin, if only because the world needs more cool violin players.
Speaking of cool violin players, check out such people as Annbjorg Lien, Nils Ockland, Iva Bittova and Don ‘Sugarcane’ Harris and you will soon see that the violin can be as sexy and rough as the guitar.
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